The Roads of the Romans
Author | : Romolo Augusto Staccioli |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Roads |
ISBN | : 9780892367320 |
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Author | : Romolo Augusto Staccioli |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Roads |
ISBN | : 9780892367320 |
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Author | : M.C. Bishop |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473837472 |
There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. The author starts with the pre-Roman origins of the network (many Roman roads being built over prehistoric routes) before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Then, uniquely, he moves on to the post-Roman history of the roads. He shows how they were crucial to medieval military history (try to find a medieval battle that is not near one) and the governance of the realm, fixing the itinerary of the royal progresses. Their legacy is still clear in the building of 18th century military roads and even in the development of the modern road network. Why have some parts of the network remained in use throughout?The text is supported with clear maps and photographs. Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloguing or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology.
Author | : Ray Laurence |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2002-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136823875 |
The Roads of Roman Italy offers a complete re-evaluation of both the evidence and the interpretation of Roman land transport. The book utilises archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for Roman communications, drawing on recent approaches to the human landscape developed by geographers. Among the topics considered are: * the relationship between the road and the human landscape * the administration and maintenance of the road system * the role of roads as imperial monuments * the economics of road construction and urban development.
Author | : Don Nardo |
Publisher | : Referencepoint Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-08 |
Genre | : Aqueducts |
ISBN | : 9781601526342 |
The world's greatest structures were all built through some combination of human ingenuity, perseverance, vision, will power and, in many cases, physical might. History's Great Structures examines the practical, technological, and political challenges encountered by the designers and The Romans were the greatest builders of the ancient world, and among their most impressive achievements were their vast systems of roads and aqueducts. The roads, which featured inns and other amenities at intervals, carried soldiers, messengers, traders, and religious pilgrims far and wide. Meanwhile, the aqueducts brought life-giving water to cities and towns, making Rome¿s mighty urban civilization possible.
Author | : Callihan Wesley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780989702867 |
Author | : Hugh Davies |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Archeology.
Author | : Christopher Hadley |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2023-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 000835670X |
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road?
Author | : Paul Baxa |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802099955 |
In the 1930s, the Italian Fascist regime profoundly changed the landscape of Rome's historic centre, demolishing buildings and displacing thousands of Romans in order to display the ruins of the pre-Christian Roman Empire. This transformation is commonly interpreted as a failed attempt to harmonize urban planning with Fascism's ideological exaltation of the Roman Empire. Roads and Ruins argues that the chaotic Fascist cityscape, filled with traffic and crumbling ruins, was in fact a reflection of the landscape of the First World War. In the radical interwar transformation of Roman space, Paul Baxa finds the embodiment of the Fascist exaltation of speed and destruction, with both roads and ruins defining the cultural impulses at the heart of the movement. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads and Ruins is a richly textured study that offers an original perspective on a well known story.
Author | : Anne Crosby Emery Allinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Rome |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lesley Adkins |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0816074828 |
Describes the people, places, and events of Ancient Rome, describing travel, trade, language, religion, economy, industry and more, from the days of the Republic through the High Empire period and beyond.